VII Fota International Liturgical Conference

Clerics gather for Cork conference

The VII Fota International Liturgical Conference was opened by Cardinal Raymond Burke in the Clarion Hotel, Cork City earlier this month. He outlined the significance of the term “agens in persona Christi” from Pius XII’s encyclical Mediator Dei and its assumption into the decree of the Second Vatican Council on the life and ministry of priests, Presbyterorum Ordinis.

Dom Paul Gunter delivered the opening paper in which he considered the priest agents in persona Christi by reflecting on the rite of Ordination, De Ordinatione and by comparing the typical editions of 1968 and 1990.

Bishop Philip Boyce of Raphoe, delivered a paper on the role of the priest as intercessor with particular reference to Blessed John Henry Newman.

Fr João Paulo de M. Dantas presented a summary of his doctoral research in which he studied the origin, the biblical-theological sense, its importance and the way in which expression “in persona Christi capitis” is used in the post-conciliar magisterium and in contemporary theology.